Gold Member BOHICA Posted November 30, 2021 Gold Member Share Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Phenom said: Bravo. Energy independence starts at home…literally. What is your storage as in batteries? What type and total stored amps are you using. Thanks for any info. My utility is net metering. They are my battery. My electric bill for the year prior to my solar was around $2200 to $2400 a year. My bill since my solar is now $5.21 a month. Or around $62 a year. I’ve become an electricity abuser. I have a substantial credit of kwhs bank up from my electric company. I paid cash for my 15.6 kwh array and installed it myself. Only cost a few bucks over $25,000. 26 % tax credit makes it cheap at around $18k. If I include what it would cost to fill up my gas rigs with what I eliminating by moving to all electric vehicles my solar will likely be “paid off” and making me money in 3 more years or so. Edited November 30, 2021 by BOHICA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted November 30, 2021 Gold Member Share Posted November 30, 2021 19 minutes ago, Phenom said: Bravo. Energy independence starts at home…literally. What is your storage as in batteries? What type and total stored amps are you using. Thanks for any info. My arrays are east west mounted so not even ideal. If I had a south facing roof I would have been even cheaper to do this. 24 panels on East and 24 on the west. lots of shade on panels as well from how close they crammed these homes in, in my hood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phenom Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 My array will be south facing on a tall pole barn with roof and trusses designed to accommodate the solar panels I’m an 40 acres and trees or any other interference except for clouds will be non existent. Thanks again for the info. The Tesla Model3 is real high on my list. Right now my average energy bills, natural gas, electricity, and diesel for the Silverado is around $750 a month, every month…that will buy a lot of solar! In 5 years right now that’s 45k. The quote for. 12kwh system is $180 a month. That’s $10,500. Cost savings will alone pay for the Model 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry ginger Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 On 11/30/2021 at 1:07 AM, BOHICA said: I Should be fossil fuel free by the end of next year. This year was a good start. New Solar and have a new EV due in the next few days. May have to put some more solar up next year to cover an additional of my EV pickup I have had on order for over a year now. But the Tesla will be picked up this week. only been generating my own electricity since the last few days in April but have made gobs of my own electricity. why are you buying a vehicle with the build quality of a Yugo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted December 1, 2021 Gold Member Share Posted December 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Angry ginger said: why are you buying a vehicle with the build quality of a Yugo? What’s this quality issue you speak of? If you don’t like some like maybe a body panel alignment you just take a picture of it. And put the pic in the app and they send somebody to come align the panel to your liking. that is typically the only complaint from the peanut gallery and it’s easily fixed without having to even take the car in to have a panel gap aligned to your specification Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry ginger Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 44 minutes ago, BOHICA said: What’s this quality issue you speak of? If you don’t like some like maybe a body panel alignment you just take a picture of it. And put the pic in the app and they send somebody to come align the panel to your liking. that is typically the only complaint from the peanut gallery and it’s easily fixed without having to even take the car in to have a panel gap aligned to your specification the 3/Y just feel cheap. body panel mismatch can be fixed some but nothing takes away from the cheap look and feel of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted December 1, 2021 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 1, 2021 chelmsford ma 12/1/21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted December 1, 2021 Gold Member Share Posted December 1, 2021 15 minutes ago, steve from amherst said: chelmsford ma 12/1/21 Personal choice wether you use that stuff or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted December 1, 2021 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 1, 2021 3 minutes ago, BOHICA said: Personal choice wether you use that stuff or not. At some point I may consider an f150 electric. Hey , Im not a prius type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFM Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Hmmm, is this true ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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